[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That likely means they'll put thought into a pleasant controller layout (including steam actions) as well. Good stuff.

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git gud

not a meme per se but I always found the command abcde confusing:

user1: How to best rip this music album??

user2: Oh simple: abcde

user1: 🤔🤔?

abcde stands for 'a better CD encoder', the more you know

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I mean taking the screenshot is the easy part, getting reliable OCR on the other hand ...

In my experience (tesseract) current OCR works well for continuous text blocks but it has a hard time with tables, illustrations, graphs, gui widgets, etc.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I feel like when comparing over a such a vast time scale party affiliation becomes less useful as a metric.

Society and mores have changed so much over the last 80+ years that it's better to ask about specific questions or habits like: Do you support a smoking ban in public spaces? or Schools should provide free meals to students: yes/no and see how the answers develop over time.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That sounds like a useful feature. Which apps are you using?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

How do you tag another user? Did you just mean you left a mental note or is it possible to assign custom tags to users somehow?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

GoldenEye has terrible controls compared to modern controller and especially mouse+keyboard but in multiplayer it didn't really matter as anyone is on even footing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My family still has one but the image quality is terrible on modern big screen TVs because

  1. It's stretched out and native resolution of N64 is already tiny by today's standards.
  2. Unnatural aspect ratio unless you can set black bars somehow.
  3. Modern displays have sharper pixel separation and colors don't 'bleed' into each other as much which kinda helped the rough polygons of that era.

The result is a picture that is both sharp and blurry at the same time and gives me head aches after an hour or so.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ok, now that you mention it: I think the difference is that (at least in my region) the PlayStation was sold with a memory card included. Standalone memory cards for it were cheap. N64 came without a memory pack and they were more expensive.

IIRC PS also had a more granular slot size (eg gran turismo takes up 1 slot while final fantasy takes up 3 slots) while on the N64 it was large and fixed (each game takes up one large slot even if that slot doesn't use up all the data).

In hindsight that has me wondering why they didn't go for dynamic slot size 🤔. Maybe because a save file could grow over time and they wanted to ensure that you could always overwrite/update?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Is that what the Steam Deck uses? It's pretty useful.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This is what I used once when my keyboard broke and some keys stopped working. Even ordering the new keyboard was difficult when I couldn't type my delivery address properly.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cartridges were also a very solid copy right enforcement mechanism. By contrast PlayStation games were much easier to pirate although manufacturers kept adding on new mechanisms to prevent just that as time went on.

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I own an older monitor that has only has VGA and DVI port and I want to connect it to my deck for daily use.

In theory this should be as simple as getting a DVI to HDMI converter cable and then connect to a dock that has a HDMI port, right? Or perhaps a DVI to display port adapter instead? I've read about people having trouble with DVI monitors so I checked multiple dock vendors and their statements boil down to "we don't support it", ie they don't deny or rule out that it works but don't want to give guarantee either.

Is anyone in a similar situation and can recommend a dock? I want to resolve the monitor situation first and then worry about additional stuff like USB ports, etc.

My monitor is a Samsung SMT 2333T (https://www.samsung.com/us/business/support/owners/product/2333t-series-2333t/)

Edit: I got it working and it was quite simple, here's my steps:

  1. I checked the port at the back of my monitor (reference chart) which turned out to be DVI-I dual link.
  2. then I purchased a HDMI <–> DVI adapter cable which supports my monitor’s resolution (1080 p). This costs around 10 €.
  3. connected that cable to the official Steam Deck dock and my monitor and it works without any further setup
  4. while in the Deck’s Desktop mode you can go into the system settings --> display and make your external monitor the primary display. Primary means that your start bar is located there, new apps will launch on this screen by default, etc. In the same settings menu you can also turn off the Decks own display while the external one is connected. I do this because I can’t comfortably look at it anyway while it’s in the dock and also to save energy.
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Frohe Ostern euch allen!

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